![]() And yet for a time, she continues to deny her magical roots. The experience helps her accept the deaths of her parents, Pietro, and Vision, but it also lets her see that she had the ability to cast spells from a young age-even if she wasn’t aware of it. ![]() With Agatha’s (unsolicited) guidance, Wanda confronts her traumatic past and relives some of the most important moments of her life. “It’s ultimately Wanda’s acceptance of the mantle of the Scarlet Witch, and then secondly and perhaps more importantly it is acceptance of her grief and of the fact that she has to let Vision and the boys go.”Ī Chat With the Lady From the ‘WandaVision’ Commercials ‘WandaVision’ Is Superhero Content Finally Centered on Womanhood, Not Girl Power The ‘WandaVision’ Finale Was All About Closure ![]() “It is acceptance in two ways,” WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer recently told Deadline after the season finale. She denies the death of her husband, Vision, inventing a world where he’s still alive and they’re starting a family together she lashes out in anger when people like Monica Rambeau try to help her face her grief head-on she attempts to bargain for control of her reality as it crumbles around her, reimagining a life with her brother back in the picture she sinks into depression, isolating herself from her family and finally, she reaches a place of acceptance. In Wanda’s previous film appearances, she always had been largely defined by loss, and WandaVision’s arc follows her as she navigates the various stages of grief. After drifting through the MCU for years, as if perpetually disguised beneath the anonymity of a logoless hat, Wanda Maximoff has finally emerged as the all-powerful Scarlet Witch. (Even Okoye notices this after knowing Wanda for only a matter of hours.) Elizabeth Olsen’s character had ambiguous powers granted by an Infinity Stone, an accent that suddenly faded without her friends even noticing, and, unlike the other Avengers, no alias or “ funny nickname.” In just nine episodes, WandaVision not only course-corrected all of the above, but it also acknowledged these storytelling faults and shortcomings and used them as plot points the show filled in the gaps and shored up Marvel’s past mistakes, casting Wanda into the spotlight for the first time. Even Wanda’s own superhero teammates feared what she was capable of.īefore WandaVision, Wanda often found herself limited to this type of role in the MCU, underutilized and stuck on the sideline as everyone else handled much of the hard work. Following an incident in Lagos, Nigeria, in which she accidentally killed dozens of civilians in an attempt to save Captain America from an explosion, Wanda is perceived as a threat around the world-and so Tony Stark and the Avengers keep her tucked away, to protect her from both herself and others. In the middle of 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, Wanda Maximoff is forced to stay at home at the Avengers Tower, with Vision serving as her guardian.
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